You may imagine how confounded I was at that.
[Illustration: "ALL GONE; MY EYEBROWS, AND MUSTACHE, AND EVERY WISP OF HAIR FROM MY HEAD."] "The air was still abominably close and smoky; so I looked about the island, and found a huge crevice in the rocks, which was almost a cave.

It was close by the water, and was far cooler than outside.

In fact, it was rather comfortable than otherwise.

Here we took refuge, and talked over our situation.

As far as we could see, the whole country was burned up.